Category Archives: Tule Lake Basin

This view from the Peninsula takes in most of the old Internment Camp – Newell, California was born out of the War Relocation Authority’s Japanese-American Internment and later, Segregation, Center. Once the decision was made tp build a center on … Continue reading →

Malin from the Air Looking Southwest Across the Tule Lake Basin – In 1907, a group of local business men incorporated the Lakeside Land Company. They purchased 6,500 acres of land, much of which was under receding Tule Lake. 140 … Continue reading →

A Town Born of Determination and Visions Of Things That Could Be Merrill, Oregon is at the northwest corner of the Tule Lake Basin and a mile north of the California border. Oregon Route 39, and the fabled Lost River, … Continue reading →